Chinh E. Chu

Senior Managing Director / Founder

Mr. Chinh E. Chu is the Founder and Managing Director at CC Capital Partners, LLC, a private investment firm which he founded in 2015. Mr. Chu and CC Capital founded 2 SPACs: CF Corp. ($1.2 billion), the largest U.S. SPAC raised at such time in May 2016 and Collier Creek ($475 million), a consumer products SPAC raised in October 2018 with Roger Deromedi and Jason Giordano.

Currently, Mr. Chu serves as Co-Executive Chairman of Fidelity & Guaranty Life, the successor to CF Corp. CC Capital also led the going-private of Dun & Bradstreet, a $6.9 billion transaction announced on August 8th, 2018.

Prior to CC Capital, Mr. Chu was a Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group where he worked for 25 years from 1990 to 2015. Mr. Chu was Co-Chair of Blackstone’s Private Equity Executive Committee, a member of the Investment Committee and served on the firm’s Executive Committee. Blackstone is one of the world’s leading investment firms with Assets Under Management of $434 billion as of December 2017 as compared to the $1 million in capital it had when Mr. Chu joined the firm.